TABLET TOOLS FOR SCAFFOLDING SELF-AWARENESS IN LEARNING PROCESS

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12408
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: The University of Electro-Communications
• Principal Investigator: KASHIHARA Akihiro 電気通信大学, 大学院情報理工学研究科, 教授 (10243263)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 教育工学 / 気づき / 擬似力覚 / 足場かけ / タブレットツール

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The main issue addressed in this work was to design and develop tablet tools that intended learners to actively involve themselves in learning process in a self-directed way. The table tools allow them to compose a map (called knowledge map) with knowledge learned from an instructional text, and present pseudo-haptic feedback for some touch operations of map composition. The pseudo-haptic feedback is expected to produce cognitive awareness about the instructional text and to give the learners a clue for exploring its intention to produce self-directed involvement in learning the text. The tablet tools also provide a scaffold for promoting this exploration. The results of the case studies suggested the possibilities that pseudo-haptic feedback provided by the tablet tools could produce cognitive awareness and enhance self-directed involvement in learning.

Free Research Field

知識工学